The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-century Virginia
- ISBN-10
- 0879351535
- ISBN-13
- 9780879351533
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 42
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Author
- James Axtell
Description
This book describes how the English vied with the Powhatan Indians to dominate the lands and resources in Tidewater Virginia. The author depicts the native inhabitants and the newcomers as equal actors in a drama whose outcome was not a foregone conclusion.
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